Peanut-digger.



T. E. AMOS & G. J. ABERNATHY.

PEANUT BIGGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYJQQ. I914.

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THOMAS E. AMOS AND GEORGE J. ABERNATI-IY, OF AMBROSE, TEXAS.

PEANUT-BIGGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1915?.

Application filed May 19, 1914. Serial No. 839,626.

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that we, THOMAS E. AMos and GEORGE J. ABERNATHY, citizens'ofthe United States, residing at Ambrose, in the county of Grayson andState of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPeanut-Diggers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to harvesting machines, and more particularly toa machine for harvesting or digging peanuts.

The primary object of this invention is the provision of a harvestingmachine which has a vertically adjustable plow shoe or shovel, which issubstantially semi-circular in shape, for gathering or engaging thevines of a peanut plant for pulling the same from the ground and guidingthe plant and peanuts to a conveyer for elevating along the machine anddepositing upon a carrier at the rear end of the machine for ejectingtherefrom in heaps or shocks preparatory to the hauling away.

Another object of this invention is the provision of a foraminousplatform over which the peanut plants are elevated. which platformprovides for the sifting through of the soil which might cling to thePlant uprooted by the shovel blade.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, this invention consists insuch novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement ofparts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings, wherein like characters of referv ence designatelike or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in whichFigure 1 is a side elevation of the improved harvester showing thespokes of the traction wheel thereof broken away,

Fig. 2 is a top plan view ofthe improved peanut digger,

Fig. 3 is a sectional view ofthe rear end of the digger,

Fig. 4: is adetail side elevation ofparts of the mechanism for adjustingthe digging shovel, and

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the digging shovel.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates asubstantially rectangular supporting frame which has the axle 2suspended beneath its lower edges. The axle 2 has the ordinary type oftraction wheels 3 mounted thereupon. The axle 2 has supporting braces atand 5 secured thereto intermediate of the sides of the substantiallyrectangular supporting frame 1, which braces extend upwardly and downwardly at an incline from the longitudinal lines of the frame 1, as isclearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and they have j ournaled intheir terminal ends, shafts 6 and 7. The shaft 6 is journaled in thelower terminal ends of the braces 1 and 5, while the shaft 7 isjournaled in the upper terminal end of the braces and in bearings 8,which are secured to the rear end of the rectangular frame 1. The shaft7 has a sprocket 9 mounted adjacent one end thereof, which sprocket hasa sprocket chain 10 passing thereabout. The sprocket chain 10 passesabout a sprocket 11, which sprocket is mounted upon the axle 2 androtates therewith for imparting rotation to the shaft 7 upon thetraction of the peanut digger.

A conveyor 15 travels about the sprockets 16 and 17,'which sprockets aremounted respectively upon the shafts 7 and 6. The

'conveyer 15 has a plurality of transversely extending bars or arms 18,which have pro- 'jecting fingers 19 formed thereupon.

The fingers 19 of the conveyer 16 travel upwardly a short distance abovea conveying platform 20, which platform is supported by thesubstantially rectangular frame 1, and is constructed of a plurality ofrods, being spaced apart from each other so as to provide a foraminousplatform to permit of the dropping therethrough of dirt or soil whichmight cling to the peanuts.

The bars of which the conveying platform 20 is formed extend parallelwith the bracing arms 4 and 5 and the conveyor 15, and the upper rearends thereof are curved downwardly as is shown at 21, for depositing thepeanuts upon the carrier 22. The carrier 22 is positioned at the rearend of the rectangular frame 1, and is formed of a plurality ofpivotally supported rods 23, which rods may be operated in any suitablemanner for ejecting the peanuts therefrom. The forward end of thesubstantially rectangular supporting frame 1 has a tongue 25 of theordinary construction secured thereto, which tongue has the plow shoesupporting braces 26 and 27 secured to the sides thereof. The plow shoesupporting members 26 and 27 extend inwardly or rearwardly of the tongue25, and are curved outwardly and downwardly, having the substantiallysemi-circular shovel or plow shoe 28 removably secured to their lowerterminal ends. The plow shoe or shovel 28 is substantially semicircularin shape, so as to efliciently engage a peanut plant and uproot thesame, and it inclines upwardly so that the uprooted peanut plants will,upon the traction of the peanut digger, pass upwardly thereover, a shortdistance along the bracing arms 26 and 27 and onto the lower terminalends of the rods of which the conveying platform 20 is mounted, wherethe plants will be engaged by the fingers l9 and carried upwardly overthe platform 20 and deposited upon the carrier 22.

The supporting frame 1 has a quadrant 30 mounted thereupon, whichquadrant receives the pawl or dog 31 which is mounted upon the lever 32.The lever 32 is pivotally supportedat 33, and it has cranked connectionthrough a crank link 35 with the arms or supporting braces 26 and 27, sothat upon the oscillatory movement of the lever the plow shoe or shovel28 will be vertically adjusted so as to engage the peanut plants, or tobe out of engaging proximity with the ground, for the non-operativetravel of the peanut digger.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and of themethod of operation of the improved peanut digger will be apparent tothose skilled in the art to which this invention appertains, and whilein the foregoing, the principle of the operation has been described,together with various features of construction, it is to be understoodthat certain minor features of construction, combination, andarrangement of parts may. be altered to suit practical conditions,provided whereby oscillatory movement of the lever.

will raise or lower said blade.

semicircular shovel 2. In a peanut digger, a substantially'rectangularsupporting frame having a tongue secured to its forward end, a pair ofsupporting braces secured to said tongue and curving downwardlytherefrom, a substantially semi-circular shovel blade secured to thelower terminals of said supporting braces, a

lever pivotally carried by said supporting.

frame, a crank link connected to the lower end of said lever, said cranklink being connected to said supporting braces whereby oscillatorymovement of the lever willraise or lower said semi-circular shovelblade, a conveyer structure carried by said supporting frame forreceiving peanuts from said uprooting shovel blade, a carrier carried bythe rear end of said supporting frame for receiving the peanuts fromsaid conveyer structure, said carrier including a plurality of pivotallysupported rods for movement into or out of a supporting position.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

THOMAS E. AMOS. V GEORGE J. ABERNATHY.

l/Vitnesses:

H. W. WrroHEB, W. B. 'BLOUTON.

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